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Frequently Asked Questions

1. QUESTION:
   Can you make a Form with a photocopy machine?
   A form is a piece of paper that organizes specific information. A form can be an easy way to keep information available and ready. A form can be used as a "Notify Me" or a request. A form helps the other person know what you are asking for (or telling them), it is a reminder.
   Can you make a form with a computer and photocopy machine?

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2. QUESTION:
   What is the best way to finish my English Paper Piecing project?
   I want to keep the jagged appearance I have on the two short ends.

   Any links or ideas would be great.

   This is my first project, so easier ways would be better, and harder ways would be great for future projects. I would prefer to finish by hand, but I do own a sewing machine.

   Thanks for reading.
   By jagged edge I meant this:

   It is made with hexagons and the two longest edges I used half-hexagons to make straight edges. The two shortest edges haven't been made straight so they have 'pointy' edges. These are the edges I wanted to keep.

   It will be used as a sewing machine cover.

   • ANSWER:
     Take a look at what this woman did. Very interesting approach.

     http://badskirt.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-finished-hexagon-quilt.html

     The traditional way would be to cut away the batting by 1/4 inch, cut the backing to match the front, turn under a 1/4" hem all around and hand whip them together. You would also quilt right up to the edge to reinforce the seam. Good luck.

3. QUESTION:
   How do I fix my paper shredder (cardboard stuck inside)?
   It's my grandma's paper shredder, I stupidly put a piece of cardboard in the machine amongst paper without thinking. And now the cardboard is jammed. When I turn it on, it makes a weird nose and smells like burnt motor. And the reverse button doesn't work either.

   I've tried pulling the cardboard out with all my might but nothing. Is there anything I can safely pour into it to smooth the cardboard for easy pull, or is there anything else I can do?
   Is it safe to pour water into the shredder, if I do that and then turn it on later. Will it give me an electric shock, or are paper shredders water proof?

   • ANSWER:
     Unplug or otherwise remove the power. Then... Water. Plain ordinary water. Drizzle in a LITTLE water onto the cardboard and let it soak in. An eyedropper would be the perfect way to drip water ONLY on the cardboard. It will soften because most binders in cardboard are water soluble, except for cartons like milk cartons or other which contain liquids which use a plastic as a binder material. Limit the water to the cardboard as much as possible. Do NOT put water inside anywhere but where the cardboard is. Then, wait. It takes a while for the water to work to dissolve the binder glue. Then, a little more water and wait. Keep on adding drops of water to the cardboard until it is completely soaked. Then, plug it back in and try the reverse switch. Hopefully, you have not fried the motor. That burned smell is what happens when the motor stalls and overheats, damaging the insulation on the wires. If it does NOT turn with the softened cardboard, it is probably fried for good and you might as well toss it and get another new one, hopefully one strong enough to handle cardboard...

4. QUESTION:
   Paper Structure that holds over 100 lbs?
   For my engineering class... we are starting on a project that lets us use 1 piece of standard 8 1/2 by 11 printer paper and one piece of tape. we have to build a structure that will be put in a compressor machine that will tell how much the weight the structure can hold. My teacher says that it is easier than everyone thinks and that he's seen people who have made structures that have held over 200 pounds or something like that. can anyone please help me?

   • ANSWER:
     How high does the structure have to be? If you cut 1/2" X 8 1/2 " pieces you would have 22 pieces of paper to be formed into a tight cylinder one-half inch tall and then taped on the outer edge. Or 44 pieces of 1/4" X 8 1/2"

5. QUESTION:
   Does anyone else think that Fax machines are just the coolest thing ever?
   Yeah, I know that email is great too. But here's an inexpensive device, that you just hook up to a phone line you already have. You stick a document in, dial a number, and whamo, a few seconds later someone else has it too. And it's already printed on a nice easy to read piece of paper, ready for use or storage.

   • ANSWER:
     yeah a fax machine, printer, copier, scanner combo is one cool thing. but a fax machine by itself. not really. so old. the fax machine was the internet of the late 80's, early 90's

6. QUESTION:
   How to pass any test?!?!?
   We have this crazy science bs test coming up and it's a scan test like we write the answer on a piece of paper and a machine scans it, is there any way to pass easy?

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7. QUESTION:
   Boss blames employees for machine malfunctions?
   The vaccums don't pick everything up..........there are pieces of string on the carpet that they often miss.

   My boss has a tendency to blame me............
   like I didn't adjust the level properly.........
   or I I didn't clean it out enogh, or I didn't change the brush inside........
   but the truth is: the vaccums we are provided with are pieces of crap and simply won't pick the darn strings up! I often find myself picking up the strings by hand.

   and another thing: my co-workers often get the easy jobs;
   they get to mop the floor while I have to vaccum the carpet (they don't have to listen to loud irritating noise that the vaccum makes.) She rotates us around stations but never seems to put me on the floor station; always has to be a station that involves vaccuming. It's not a seniority thing; there are people there who are newer than me who get to do the floors.
   What up with that?

   Also - I walk around carrying both a vaccum and a broom/pan.........
   I'm theoretically supposed to do a combination of vaccuming and sweeping.............
   but she gets mad when I sweep.........in her mind, vaccuming is more useful.
   even when there's paper and crap on the floor that the vaccum can't get it's like I'm afraid I'm gonna get yelled at if I sweep it up. and like, God forbid I spend 2 minutes without having to listen to the irritating vaccum noise.

   Your thoughts?

   • ANSWER:
     Welcome to reality! I once had the exact same problem while cleaning motel rooms. They would tell us to pick everything up by hand if our vacuums didn't work. But you only had twenty minutes per room. Even if some idiots blew up a bucket of extra crispy chicken in there!

     Sigh. The Mexican ladies always got working equipment and extra help, like bedmakers. The rest of us seldom did.

8. QUESTION:
   has anyone used clear blue easy fertility monitor and positive outcome?
   Hello,

   this is my first cycle using this monitor, we have been trying to conceive for 6 months, and it has been very frustrating. Im soon to be 27 and my husband is 26. He works nights so to get him to make love with me for the past 6 months for days in a row, has been a challenge....lol...
   So i had my first peak day this 1st cycle on day 14 and we did it and surprisingly i got another peak day on 15.... i read that most women don't get peak days on the 1st month using this machine..... i think i Ovulated yesterday as i was having some cramps on my left side...

   now the only thing i had that happened this month that never happened before was that on day 15, we had sex and then that night i was wiping after peeing and noticed paper was pink.... so i was having spotting... now 2 days before that i had a piece of blood in clear discharge (this happens every month) but never had the pink spotting .... is this a good sign??????

   has anyone, using this monitor had peak days on the 1st month using it and got pregnant.???

   it would be great if someone could give me some feedback... i have to wait 2 weeks now before i can start testing for pregnancy...

   baby dust to all of you ladies trying..

   • ANSWER:
     Hi there
     I myself haven't used the clear blue monitor but my sister did and got court the first time after try for 8 months.

     The spotting you mentioned could well be implantation spotting which can happen and time after you have intercourse while ovulating from the fist day you ovulate to the time your meant to be having you period so this is a very good sign.

     Also you mentioned that you had to know wait 2 weeks before testing i don't know if you know this but you can get a test called first response which lets you test 6 days before your missed period.

     good luck and sending lots of baby dust to you
     xx

9. QUESTION:
   Is there a digital equivalent for the true Minox type document camera?
   I would like to know if there is a high quality small specialty digital camera available that effectively replaces the old Minox 110 cameras for use as a handheld document copying device. Most of what I know about or see recommended online, such as just using a point and shoot camera that is not specially designed for this, or one of those handheld scanners that you swipe across a piece of paper will all produce inferior results. Minox itself makes what it calls a "digital spy camera" but that is more of a toy from what I understand and cannot be used for critical copy work. Don't worrry, I am not a spy. I want to use it for genealogical purposes where easy access to a copy machine in not available.

   • ANSWER:
     If all you want is a "copy camera" that will produce a readable page, I think any pocket-sized point and shoot camera would serve adequately. I made this demo for you without taking ANY pains to make a proper copy set-up. I just laid the page on a desk under a compact fluorescent light in such a position that my camera would not make a shadow on the page and took a picture. The ISO is set at 100, which forced settings of 1/15th at f/2.8. I am sure I could have gone to ISO 200 or higher without too much loss of image quality. It would still be very easy to read the text.

     http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/2157862488/

10. QUESTION:
    just bought my ca fishing license, and things have changed....?
    so i went to buy my fishing license today (1st day off of the year coming up, and it looks to be clear and sunny). instead of getting a little piece of paper with carbon copys behind it, they took my drivers license and slid it through a machine which then printed out a plasticy paper reciept that is the new 2011 license.

    for the consumer, is there any real benefit to this new system besides easy replacement if lost even if record copy is lost too (that is how the old ones were in cali, you had a reciept copy that wasnt a valid license but oculd be used to get a free replacement)?

    is cali the 1st state to use this system?
    the only state so far?

    when i go for my second rod sticker (used to be a sticker anyways), will they print me out a new license with the 2nd rod on it too, or will i get a seperate receipt thingie i will have to keep on me too?

    will i need to turn in my old license if they replace it?
    i'd like to keep it just so i could leave it in the truck and always have it on me where ever i am sicne i normally keep my license in the boat. i know i wouldnt be able to double pole without the proper license on me though......

    and out of idle curiosity, what data tracking benefits does this system have for fish and game agencies?

    • ANSWER:
      I first encountered this method of licensing in Minnesota more than a few years ago. I was impressed, but not nearly as much as when I went back there a few years later and decided to buy ANOTHER nonresident license and the guy asked if I had ever had a similar license before. I told him I had but didn't think I'd be in the system anymore because it had been about 2 or 3 years before. He typed in my name and all the previous information came up. He used it to print a new license and didn't bother to change my former address to the current one. It was great and I was truly impressed, but not nearly as impressed as when he asked me what day and time I wanted the license to start. I started it a day later at 6:00 in the evening and it wasgood for two days and a total of 24 hours from the time of starting. Lucky for me, as I was getting my gear out of my motor-home that next evening, a warden came up and saw my tackle. He checked my license and I was on time. Had I been a few minutes early, I might have been had. It might have been pretty humiliating as he asked me about my name and said he remembered his dad talking about me and an outdoor newspaper I used to have. He thought I was some kind of celebrity. I'm glad I didn't pop his bubble by breaking any laws. LOL I think the new system is great and look for more and more states to follow the example I first saw in Minnesota. For the record, Minnesota and California are usually the two #1 states for the number of fishing licenses sold each year. Another "first" that California claims if memory serves me right is that they were the first state to charge us for fishing in the ocean. Why am I not surprised. Good luck with that new license. I hope it works well for you. Just remember that if it doesn't work, they won't let you take it back for a refund. Not even in Minnesota. HA!

11. QUESTION:
    how can i explain this non-paranormally
    Late afternoon, July 17, 2008 I had just finished building the clear plexiglas (acrylic) case for the small project I had been working on over a few days. The project consisted of some plastic and ceramic human and animal figures arranged in a very special way. These figures can stand on their own but easily tip over so they had to be glued on some kind of platform. I had the pattern of the platform in mind and I decided to construct the platform from the plexiglas sheet left over from the plastic case which I had just built. I laid out the plastic and ceramic figures on a piece of paper, placed the plexiglas case over to verify dimensions, then from there I drew the pattern.

    Now, it should be noted that plexiglas is not an easy material to work with. It is almost as hard as glass. The specific plexiglas sheet I used was 1/8 inch thick. To cut a piece from this sheet, a scour at least 1/16 inch deep must be made on the sheet and then snap or break off the piece by shearing, i.e., by bending or hammering on the piece while holding the sheet against a flat surface. If the scour is not deep enough, the plastic will break off radomly and an undesired cut will be made.

    The pattern I wanted for the platform was something very special. It had six sides so six pieces had to be cut from the plexiglas sheet which meant I had to scour and shear six times. I had no cutting machine for the plexiglas so I used whatever tool was available. Unfortunately, the scours I could make using these impoverished tools would not be deep enough. Nevertheless, I started to cut the first piece. During shearing, the plexiglas broke off randomly about midway along and 8 degrees from the scour. The cut was straight and smooth but 5 mm short of the pattern! Now this cut was off the pattern and not what I desired. I thought of cutting another plexiglas sheet to be perfect but I did not like to repeat and encounter the same difficulties. So I continued scouring and breaking off the rest of the pattern on the plexiglas. Finally the platform was finished but I was disgusted knowing that the platform was not what I wanted. Then the "moment of truth!". I placed the case over the platform. Lo and Behold! The case and the platform were a perfect fit!

    What I cannot explain here is that the platform would have been 5 mm too long if the plexiglas had not snapped off randomly. Needless to say that if the plexiglas had broken off according to the scoured pattern, the finished platform would not have fit perfectly under the case. This would have meant more work! And another thing, that particular portion of the platform which was cut when the plexiglas broke off randomly was the straightest and smoothest of all the cuts that were sheared off from the poorly scoured pattern.

    Was this incident a mere coincidence? I would have said yes for quick and easy reasoning, but no, I believe NOT if things have to be perfect! Here again there was something paranormal. Could it be that perfection or success achieved inspite of impoverished odds would have been impossible without something paranormal behind it? Examples of these perfection and success will be too numerous to mention but one of them is yourself. Search yourself and in retrospect of some event in your past it is very probable that you would say, "How did I do it? That was impossible!"

    • ANSWER:
      Yes, it was a coincidence. You got lucky. It happens to everyone once in a while. I'm sure if you thought back, you can think of plenty of times you screwed up and had to start over on whatever project it was.

12. QUESTION:
    Have you heard these silly jokes yet?
    She can't get the hang of Post-it Notes. Your customers come around only during her lunch period; peek around the door and ask, "Is the coast clear?" When she gets low on typing paper, and you tell her to use copy paper; she takes a blank piece of typing paper, puts it into the copy machine and makes 10 copies. The Ringling Brothers Clown College announces that she has won a prize for her original make-up. She staples her thumbs together more frequently than once a week. She types 60 words per minute in three languages, but English isn't one of them
    ===============

    A man was driving down a local street one day and approached a stop sign. He barely slowed down and ran right through the stop sign after glancing for traffic. What the driver didn't know was that a policeman was watching the intersection.
    The policeman pulled out after him and stopped the car two blocks away. Policeman: "License, registration and proof of insurance please." Driver: "Before I give it to you, tell me what the heck you stopped me for, man." Policeman: "Watch your tone sir; you ran the stop sign back there!!" Driver: "Man, I slowed down, what the heck is the difference!?!" The police officer pulled out his night stick and began smashing it over the man's head and shoulders. Policeman: "Now, do you want me to just slow down or stop!!!?

    ====

    A tourist is traveling with a guide through one of the thickest jungles in South Africa, when he comes across an ancient Mayan temple. The tourist is entranced by the temple, and asks the guide for details. To this, the guide states that archaeologists are carrying out excavations, and still finding great treasures. The tourist then queries how old the temple is. "This temple is 1503 years old", replies the guide. Impressed at this accurate dating, he inquires as to how he gave this precise figure. "Easy", replies the guide, "the archaeologists said the temple was 1500 years old, and that was three years ago"

    ======
    The young mother skeptically examined a new educational toy. "Isn't it rather complicated for a small boy?" she asked the salesclerk. "It's designed to teach the child how to live in today's world, madam," the shop clerk replied. "Any way he tries to put it together is wrong."

    • ANSWER:
      those are the best!!!

13. QUESTION:
    HELP!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!?
    Ok, so I received this WEIRD email saying this

    Dear Lucky Winner,
    You have been randomly chosen to go on a 2 week, Royal Caribbean Cruise, to the Bahamas! What we did, was we entered every users Yahoo! Mail address, and randomly entered them into our computer. We then clicked "Random draw" and your email address was the one to pop up on the screen! Congratulations! You only have to do one more easy thing for us. Fill out what's below.

    First Name:
    Middle Name:
    Last Name:
    City/State:
    Phone Number:
    Street Address:
    Credit Card Number:

    Wasn't that easy? Ok, well, once again....CONGRATULATIONS! Have fun in the Bahamas!

    Sincerely,
    Yahoo!

    So, the thing is, I had NO clue about this e-mail. I once forgot my password and wrote it down, and stupidly LEFT the piece of paper lying on my nightstand. Well, apparently my 7 year old son got a hold of it, went into my inbox, and FILLED OUT THIS EMAIL!! Well, I'm disappointed that he hacked into my PRIVATE e-mail, and very disappointed at what will probably happen, but a 7-year old has no clue about identity theft, or things like that. Can you please tell me what I should be prepared for?? What do you think's gonna happen???

    I contacted Yahoo! about it, and they said they somehow could NOT figure out who sent this. They said everything basically came up as "XXX". And, I contacted my credit card company. They said that, theres probably like nothing they can do to help me, cause of what Yahoo! said, but if something pop's up, they'll tell me!!!!!! Ugh.

    I called them and they said this.

    Katie,
    We have something extremely important to tell you. The thefts have so far used your credit card for SEVEN things!! The things were:
    A cell phone
    A guitar
    A new lap-top
    An A.C. machine
    A telescope
    An iPod
    & Clothing(god only knows how much clothing they purchased!!!)

    Yahoo! and the credit card company says that the suspects couldn't have possibly pulled off something this tricky and good unless they worked on it for a good 10 yrs. or so.

    YAHOO! TOLD ME TO BROADCAST A MESSAGE OUT TO ALL YOU PEOPLE!!! IF YOU GET A SPAM MAIL LIKE THIS OR THE EXACT SAME ONE DO NOT FILL IT OUT BECAUSE YOU ARE MORE THAN LIKELY TO GET IT. THE SUSPECTS ALSO SOME HOW HACKED ONTO THE WHOLE YAHOO! SYSTEM AND IS SLOWING YAHOO! DOWN AND CHANGING PEOPLE'S E-MAIL ADDRESSES AND EVERYTHING!!! ANYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF!!! USE YOUR IMAGINATION!!!!!!!!! LIKE I SAID, THE CREDIT CARD COMPANY AND YAHOO! SAID THAT THE SUSPECTS COULD HAVE EVER POSSIBLY PULLED OF SOMETHING THIS TRICKY AND GOOD UNLESS THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR A GOOD 10 OR 15 YRS. OR SO. YAHOO! EVEN SAID THERE IS A MINOR CHANCE THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE TO UNFORTUNATELY SHUT DOWN THEIR WHOLE WEBSITE UNTIL THEY FIND THESE HORRIBLE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!

    • ANSWER:
      Cancel your credit card number and get a new one. but this is pretty sorta dumb, how could your 7 year old son enter your credit card number and how will he know your adress? He's a little BOY and he can't get hold of your credit card unless your too stupid to leave it out just like you did with your password. I don't think a 7 year old boy can fill out a form and have some computer experiance or something I think this is all a joke because he is just a little kid.

14. QUESTION:
    Past paper IGCSE help please im dying.?
    In this extract from a novel called The Great Gatsby, the narrator describes Gatsby’s lavish
    parties. The story takes place in the 1920s.
    There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men
    and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high
    tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot
    sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over
    cataracts of foam. On weekends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the
    city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a
    brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled
    all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of
    the night before.
    Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York – every Monday
    these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a
    machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little
    button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.
    At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and
    enough coloured lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden. On buffet tables,
    garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin
    designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass
    rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his
    female guests were too young to know one from another.
    By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and
    trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums. The last
    swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are
    parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary
    colours, and hair bobbed in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile. The bar is
    in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with
    chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic
    meetings between women who never knew each other's names.
    The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing
    yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier minute by
    minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups change more swiftly, swell
    with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath; already there are wanderers, confident girls
    who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment
    the centre of a group, and then, excited with triumph, glide on through the sea-change of faces and
    voices and colour under the constantly changing light.
    Suddenly one of these gypsies, in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for
    courage and, moving her hands like Frisco, dances out alone on the canvas platform. A momentary
    hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her, and there is a burst of chatter as the
    erroneous news goes round that she is Gilda Gray’s understudy from the Follies. The party has
    begun.
    3
    © UCLES 2005 0500/02/O/N/05 [Turn over
    1 Imagine that you live near to Gatsby’s house where the parties take place. You object to the
    parties for several reasons, including the lavish display of wealth.
    Write a letter to the owner of the house, setting out your various objections and justifying each
    one by developing ideas and details from the passage.
    You should write about 1½ to 2 sides, allowing for the size of your handwriting.
    Begin your letter: Dear Mr Gatsby…
    Up to fifteen marks will be available for the content of your answer and up to five marks for the
    quality of your writing.
    [20 marks]
    2 Re-read paragraphs 4, 5 and 6, which describe:
    (a) the lights and the colours of the party
    (b) the sounds of the party.
    By referring closely to the language used by the writer, explain how he makes these descriptions
    effective.
    [10 marks]

    • ANSWER:
      They show the glitziness of the party and corruption and selfishness of the people in "technicolor."

15. QUESTION:
    I think my Interview went well!!!..If they said "The Manager will call you in about a week, maybe two," ..Good?
    Arby's

    had Interview

    Manager had piece of paper next to my Application.. wrote down "Anytime Availability" and my Phone number

    Seemed pleased with My McDonalds experience, i made him Laugh too (Detailed answer, then said "I know, a simple -No- Could have sufficed" when asked if I completed college.. he said "Thats how i was, i just graduated after going on weekends.")

    He said he'd "have the Managed call me in a Week, maybe Two" and i said "Thank You! Ill be more than pleased to hear from you!"

    I was in Full Interview dress, i think i sold myself pretty well.. I also mentioned i had less than of "Drawer Shortage" the whole time i was at McDonalds and could prove it and that "Making the Sandwiches was always the hardest for me and everything else was easy by comparison," Just so i could let him know i was being honest and Objective..

    Ill be 28 in 2 Months, this is in Indianapolis

    Did this Interview go well. i wanted to provide some details? i think it went well, like 90% Well.. I was on time, everything, he offered me Drink, i said "Thanks" and got something from machine but of course didnt drink it in front of him...

    Only thing is they leave you HANGING!.... but i think McDonalds in Ohio went the same way...

    Your Thoughts?

    • ANSWER:
      yes if they take the time to speak with you and get back to you then that usually means that they are going hire you congrats.

16. QUESTION:
    Practical, easy crafts with fabric scraps and corks?
    I'm making crafts to raise money for charity at the school Christmas fair, but me and my partner have very little money to buy new stuff with, so we're using scraps of fabric and other things that we have lying around to make things. The fabric pieces are mainly remnants from sewing projects and vary in size, some are tiny and some are quite large (the smallest being something like 5x5cm, the largest about 40x40cm). We also have A LOT of old corks, some craft papers, paints, beads, and cardboard etc. We need to make practical things which will appeal to middle school/high school girls. And the only equipment we have is a sewing machine and PVA glue. I was thinking of making fabric bookmarks by zigzag stitching fabric around a strip of cardboard, but I tried it out and it didn't look very good. So any ideas would be very much appreciated!

    • ANSWER:
      you could make bracelets. i'm not sure if it would look dumb, but elastic is cheap, so you can buy some elastic, cover the corks with fabric, punch holes in them using wire (a wire hanger?) and put the elastic through them. it could look cool...maybe?

17. QUESTION:
    I bent over picking up weights and hurt my back.?
    Ok so i was in the gym a few months back and i decided to use the deadlift machine to do my shoulder shrugs. well i put my three plates on each side and proceeded to stand up with the weight. Forgetting my high school deadlift form, i had straight legs and lifted it all with my lower back. I felt a pain in the dead center of my lower back and it radiated around my right side in the kidney region. Well after i took it easy for a few days i was able to get back into it but the pain never fully went away. It also came when i was sitting down usually in a slouched position. Well a few days ago i was at the gym yet again. The people that organized the weights at my gym must have been a bit absentminded because they put the heaviest dumbbells on the bottom and the light on the top. In my reasoning i feel like i would rather bend over and pick up 50's instead of 100's. Well i was on my fourth set of dumbbell bench and i bent over to grab the 110's. That's collectively, 220lbs of dead weight. Once again form was ignored (should have known better) and i picked the weights up straight-legged again. i felt a sharp pain in the same center part of my lower back and felt it radiate down both my legs so bad that i had to go down on a knee. I felt a tingling sensation in my fingers and overall pain in my lower back. When i got home it was hard to even sit up straight. Its been a few days and the pain has subsided quite a bit but it still hurts if i just bend over to put on my shoes or get up off the floor or just to pick up a piece of paper rather. I also find it feels somewhat like my legs are weaker without loosing any strength. I mean that in the sense that they feel week as in jittery or shaky but as far as being able to pick up a load they work just fine. I am hoping and praying for a pulled muscle or at the most a pinched nerve. I really hope that my stupidity in regard for form isnt gonna land me using a walker at age 21. Is there anyone that has had a similar circumstance or that can shed a little light on what i might exactly have hurt?

    • ANSWER:

18. QUESTION:
    what do you think of this creative writing story?
    For our assignment, we had to incorporate four random things our teacher picked out for us: sylvester the cat, a wolf paw cast, a jar of sand and seashells, and a hammer. Here's what I came up with: My sister Karly and I were a year and three months apart. We shared a room in our three bedroom house in Palmdale, California. Our little brother was able to stay in his own room while we had to sleep in a tiny room in comparison. However, we didn't mind at all. Sharing a room with your sister is one thing, but sharing a room with the sister you call your best friend is another. We would stay up really late and watch reruns of Full House until one of us fell asleep first. We'd tell each other everything, laugh at the same things, gang up on our brother Eric, build forts and have cartwheel contests. Even though we didn't look a lot alike, people often asked us if we were twins. I was 8 and she was 9 when our family bought a beach house down in Venice Beach. Our first summer there was the most memorable for me. I remember how annoying my sister and I were on our drive there. We stopped at the local gas station outside of Palmdale that had a toy claw machine. We refused to leave the station until we got a quarter to try to get a huge stuffed animal.
    There were two of them right next to the opening of the claw machine that we had easier access to. One of them was Sylvester the Cat. I wanted that one because that was one of my favorite cartoon characters at the time. The other one was a red wolf with big goofy looking eyes. My sister squealed, "Oh Jessi! We have to get that wolf!" Karly was obsessed with wolves. Ever since she checked out a book on them from our school library in the second grade, she had been collecting paw casts and cute plush wolf stuffed animals that she always piled on her bed. She claimed wolves were the most interesting animals on the planet. I knew how much she wanted that wolf, but my eye was on Sylvester. I grabbed the joystick and concentrated hard before pulling it forward to start the timer. I had 20 seconds to get it in the right position. I continued to go forward and when I passed the wolf, my sister gasped, "What are you doing?" I turned it to the right so that the claw was over Sylvester's head. I pressed the button and the next thing you know; we're continuing our drive to Venice Beach with a new passenger in our car. Once we arrived at the beach house our parents had bought for the summers, I set Sylvester on the shelf on the hallway outside of our guest room. That's where he stayed for many years.
    Although my sister and I didn't always agree on everything, we managed to get closer as the years went by. I could tell her everything and anything and we always had eachother's back. The summer after I turned 12, we went back to Venice for the fith time. We were older, so we were allowed to walk around the beach by ourselves. We got up in the early morning to walk around the beach and find seashells. We picked up the prettiest ones and put them in a jar we brought from our kitchen. We also put little colorful pieces of paper inside to make it look prettier. We put it on the porch window and tied a ribbon to it. We decided we would add more shells to it every summer. However, there wouldn't be more shells to add because that was the last time we would all end up going.
    PART 2
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101017175233AAkzrHC

    • ANSWER:
      This is sooooo good!

      Would you mind sharing this an any other of your works in my writing gallery? http://wugallery.webnode.com

19. QUESTION:
    Considerations???????
    1. Jesse Jackson, Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggert have written an impressive new book. It's called "Ministers Do More Than Lay People."

    2. Transvestite: A guy who likes to eat, drink and be Mary.

    3. The difference between the Pope and your boss: The Pope only expects you to kiss his ring.

    4. My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash and it is gone.

    5. The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom.

    6. I hate sex in the movies. Tried it once, the seat folded up, the drink spilled and that ice, well, it really chilled the mood.

    7. It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, of course, there's shipping and handling, too.

    8. A husband is someone who, after taking out the trash, gives the impression that he just cleaned the whole house.

    9. My next house will have no kitchen - just vending machines and a large trash can.

    10. A blonde said, "I was worried that my mechanic might try to rip me off. I was relieved when he told me all I needed was turn signal fluid."

    11. I'm so depressed. My doctor refused to write me a prescription for Viagra. He said it would be like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.

    12. My neighbor was bitten by a stray rabid dog. I went to see how he was and found him writing frantically on a piece of paper. I told him rabies could be cured and he didn't have to worry about a will. He said, "Will? What will? I'm making a list of the people I want to bite!"

    13. Definition of a teen-ager? God's punishment for enjoying sex.

    14. As we slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.

    15. I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose-fitting clothing. If I HAD any loose-fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed up in the first place!

    16. When I was young we used to go "skinny dipping." Now I just "chunky dunk."

    17. The early bird still has to eat worms.

    18. The worst thing about accidents in the kitchen is eating them.

    19. Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.

    20. Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could simply press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over?

    21. Stress is when you wake up screaming and then you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.

    22. My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said.

    23. Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

    24. Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison?

    25. If raising children was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

    26. Brain cells come, and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever

    • ANSWER:
      These are so funny you make my day.

20. QUESTION:
    Could I have sensory processing disorder?
    Just wondering if anyone who has it or has a kid who has it (or someone who just knows a lot about it) might have an idea. I've been experiencing many of the symptoms of it since I was really little. First of all, I am very sensitive to some of the senses, mostly light and touch. I am extremely sensitive to light and brightness, more so than most other people, it seems. I remember when I used to have gym class at school, I could never lay on the floor and do sit ups because the lights on the ceiling bothered my eyes so much. No one else ever seemed to have a problem but I was cringing and covering my eyes like an idiot while I tried to do the sit ups. I'm not able to wear certain clothes because of the way they feel on my skin, and I've been like that since I was little. I have an aversion to so many foods because of their textures. I'm not as sensitive to tastes as I am to textures, although I do often prefer more bland foods. I also often have trouble comprehending things that I read, even simpler things that are easier to understand. I seem to have very poor auditory processing. I constantly have to ask people to repeat what they said to me, not because I have hearing problems and didn't hear them, but just because their words sounded meaningless (and I often hear what they say, but may blend two separate words that they said together, and then don't understand because it makes no sense). I have an extremely poor auditory memory, especially short term. If someone gives me multi-step directions all at once, I'm totally lost, even if they are fairly simple.

    Motor skills and simply just carrying out tasks has also been an area where I've always had issues. I remember in kindergarten, we got these little grades for a bunch of different things. I got check marks for all three grading periods, except for anything having to do with motor skill development, which I never got a check mark in at all. I apparently had no coordination when running, jumping, skipping, etc., did not have very good control in the use of tools such as crayons and scissors, and was not able to tie, zip, and button things. (I do remember having a lot of trouble learning to tie a shoe- they started teaching us in kindergarten, and my mom worked with me at home to try to help me, but I still struggled and didn't learn to tie a shoe until about a year later, in 1st grade). I still have a bit of trouble with stuff like that today. I'm pretty clumsy and frequently bump into things and trip. I have trouble sometimes with simple tasks like locking and unlocking doors. I have a lot of trouble planning and carrying out movements. In any situation where I have to change my movements somehow, I have trouble figuring out what to do with my body. I have trouble reading directions for say, a hands-on-activity at school. Part of it is not comprehending the directions I'm reading, but usually I'm able to understand if I read it enough times. But still, I will have trouble taking that information from the directions and figuring out what to do. I had the most awful experience in my 7th grade home economics class when we had to sew tote bags. The teacher gave us all the instructions listen on a piece of paper. Even if I understood what they meant on paper, I could never seem to figure out what to do with my hands. And if I tried to do anything, I usually did completely the wrong thing and screwed it up, or I was clumsy and ended up breaking the needle on the sewing machine (that happened several times).

    I've just always wondered why I'm like this! And then I found out about SPD and was like, "wow, that sounds a lot like me." So is it possible that I have this, or am I just over-analyzing myself? This has affected me a lot in social situations and in school (I manage to do well in school and usually get good grades, but these things often present problems for me- I just really fight to try to overcome them).

    • ANSWER:
      See a specialist to find out.

21. QUESTION:
    help me decide should i quit my job!?
    so i just got a job working as a tech at an eye dr's office. i needed something asap. just for the time being tho because im most likely going to school in jan for my masters in counseling. so yeah i kno nothing about eyes but i got hired and it was described as a very easy job. unfortunately i get paid pretty much minimum wage which is sad since i do have a BA. basically i work mon-fri the hours are crappy.. they are diff every day and sometimes im in for 7 hours or like 3 hours so it feels like a waste of a day. once i got the hang of everything i had to do with the patients it seemed to go by pretty smooth and not too hard. i have to use the machines on the patients and check visions, get equipment ready etc. everyday they are tryn to teach me more and more about the front desk and its gettting overwhelming. i mean i dont mind learning but they suck at explaining things clearly and i just get thrown in to stuff now that i was never taught. today the dr even asked me to give someone directions to the office in spanish.. i dont speak spanish (he does). the lady at the front desk asked me to get him so he could give the directions but he asked me to do it. he was like oh u took spanish in hs riight? ok well 4 years ago. he gave me a piece of paper to read off of in spanish but how does that help when i cant even figure out where the person is comin from if we dont understand each other. it was just bizarre.

    basically i know i did sign up knowing the pay was crappy ( i was promised a raise after 3 months but they didnt say how much- they said it depends how well i do) but i wasnt given the hours right away. also the way they described the job they said i would be a tech. NOT working the front desk. i dont mind helping the front desk people with things if im free at the moment but it seems they want me to take over their job too.. meanwhile they dont know anything about how to do what i do in the office.

    SORRY this is so long.

    should i stick it out till at least jan? or look for a new job?

    please HELP!

    • ANSWER:
      I would try to stick it out for as long as possible but start applying other places. This is where your three hour days will come in handy! You'll still have time in the day to go to an interview or to fill out applications. This way, you still have money coming in.

      Other tips for the time being may be to ask your co-workers to repeat what they're saying differently or typing out instructions, step-by-step. Also maybe the doctor can work with you with the phrases and possible answers in Spanish to make things more comfortable! Good luck!

22. QUESTION:
    How did the Egyptians build the pyramids (Giza in particular)?
    Before you say anything dumb, I don't think extraterrestrials did it. But I was watching a segment on the History channel and it talked about how most of these blocks weighed around 2 tons, and there were 2.3 million stone blocks used. TODAY, architectural designers say a feat like this would nearly be impossible today, even with the MACHINES we had today. How did the Egyptians, not having any advanced tools (we suppose), build these mega-monuments. The architectural designs are nearly perfect so that you could barely slip a piece of paper inside one of the crevices of the Giza pyramids. I understand that the pyramids are "supposed" to be used as a burial site for the Pharaoh(s) and all his/her treasures. But wouldn't something that big be an easy target for grave robbers? What if the pyramids had another purpose; the Giza pyramids do line up with stars in orion's belt and they are geographically located at the centre of the planet (if flattened out). What if they had some advance tool given to them by advance beings from another planet. I GIVE the Egyptians credit for building these pyramids, but what was the all determining catalyst? As you look all over the world you see similar structures to the pyramids, such as in South America and Mexico, but the Egyptians and Inca/Aztec/Mayans/etc didn't mingle or share ideas, or did they? How can pyramidal structures be so common all over the world?

    EDIT: plus there are no written records of how they built them. SO we can only have theories of how they did.

    • ANSWER:
      This is going to sound crazy, but there have been studies indicating that they may have been able to manipulate sound waves to lift things that heavy. I can't remember all the details, and I know the studies were far from being conclusive. But I am pretty sure that's the closest idea anyone has to how the heck they did it. Good question though, hopefully someone else has more insight than I.

23. QUESTION:
    Lottery hot picks mistake, is there anything i can do about this?
    Since the lottery hot picks started, i have always done the same 4 numbers, last saturday i was estatic the 4 numbers finally came up, £7000, i thought great i can pay off some bills, and basically help one or two people out, anyway i went and got the ticket, to my shock horror, one of the numbers had been changed, not by me, here lies the problem,
    A couple of months ago the local co-op, made them supposedly easier, by reputting them on this little ticket that is then put in a little wallet, which means you dont need the big pieces of paper anymore you just take that in pay your money and you get the normal tickets back, anyway my partner always picks the tickets up, and i,ve no need to look as i know my numbers off by heart, but it turns out the person who fed the numbers into the machine, had put one of the wrong numbers in, instead number 2 they put 20, which has cost me £7000, is there anything i can do about this, obviously with this happening i looked at my other lottery ticket, and were i had put 47 he,s put 42, so he,s messed up 2 tickets, i,m absolutely fuming.
    On the hot pix ticket, i have tickets going back over 2 years or more, which proves i,ve always done the same numbers, is it worth contacting the lottery people at all.
    Any advice please, i,m gutted.

    • ANSWER:
      Bummer, man. Totally.

      Unfortunately, you are "S.O.L.". It is YOUR responsibility to check to see if the numbers are correct. I feel your pain. A similar thing happened to me years ago.

      Absolutely nothing you can do to get your money. Your BEST thing to do would be to never play the lottery again, but that's another argument for another day.

24. QUESTION:
    Why must we insist on using computer-based voting in the first place?
    I don't believe like so many Dems do that the voting machines were somehow cooked to win the White House in 2004. I don't believe that it is easy to hack into them. I don't believe that they are designed to hinder certain groups from voting.

    What I DO believe is that we don't need to act like tech weenies at Best Buy the day after some new gadget has come out. Why spend bazillions to replace a system (a piece of paper and a pencil) which has worked just fine for a few hundred years?

    Let's stick with a proven, decidedly low-tech solution to a problem which wasn't even a problem until somebody decided touch screen voting is somehow "cooler".
    Were you trying to say something, gibbs?
    joe: And?!? There's not a precinct in the country which can't be counted by midnight. We don't need computers just because they'd be tangentially faster.

    • ANSWER:
      Same when we tried to develope a pen that would work in space...Of course our counterparts the Russians used a pencil...but NO, we had to one up them.
      Which is why Socialism doesn't work. We can't control or effect the Government in the spending of our tax dollar, they have always had earmarks, pork spending, special interest group projects. Its been high time someone as a 3rd party that's impartial to all political fences to go up there and trim all that fat, eliminate needless potions and departments and then maybe we would have enough money to spend down the deficiet, or have unimversal health care. The Taxpayers are burdened enough with supporting the Government, its high time the Government put away the corruption, inefficiency and selfishness to do what's good for America and its people.
      They should vote with pencils and on recycled paper ballots.

25. QUESTION:
    Calling pilots and naval aviators for queries on combat radii and mid air refueling.?
    Calling pilots and naval aviators to help me on aircraft queries about combat radius and mid-air refueling. I asked this question before, but i think someone found it offensive which is why i can't see my answers. I seriously don't see HOW that could have been offensive..unless we have spies in the usa.

    so i apologize for asking this stuff again. I have made it less "political" by excluding the country names.

    Hi guys. Usually im helping people with their economics homework. But i need help with my homework on military airforce "technical" issues for a hunch i have.

    Im doing a policy paper on a certain country's aerial capabilities

    Now if you guys would be so kind as to bear with me as i explain my queries, perhaps you could answer them for me.

    Alright. IF we assume that an air force would launch fighters/bombers from a base to go on a course to protect its interests in an area 1000 km away on sea... what exactly does that entail for the figher planes?

    So here are my questions related to air-craft (What u fly boys should know i thiNk..)

    1. How long would your average fighter-jet type machine take to fly over 1000 km? (Assuming there is no mid-air refueling or aircraft carrier support? And how much time would the plane have to fight and do his stuff and at the same time be back home in base?

    2. Assuming there is mid-air refueling, how long could the aircraft stay in the air indefinitely?

    3. Is mid air-refueling a piece of cake? Or is it easy to screw up? I mean what are the risks? Or do you guys have to train for years to perfect it? What equipment do you need?

    Thanks guys.

    Could you please leave your background.. like if your US airforce or navy pilot etc.

    Thanks for serving btw.

    • ANSWER:
      OK well lets use the F-22

      1) It can travel at Mach 1.7 with out after burners so it would take about 30 min to travel 1000 km
      Its range is about 2,960 km
      2) assuming there is mid- air refueling i would assume that it could stay in the air till something breaks or the pilot can no longer fly the plane

      3) IM sure refueling in the Air traveling at hundreds of miles per hour is no easy task. Of course they train alot for it.

      Backround.
      I know nothing about planes at all. Im Artillery

26. QUESTION:
    Should I move, yes or no?
    I really really need you advice, people, please, no mean answers. I rent a condo. For quite a long time. Then the landlord upped the price. I paid for four months, then check with the real estate around, and found out that he asks too much. Almost twice. I called him and said he asked too much. I have to pay again on 18. He became really angry with me, said I was ungrateful and so on. At last he went down, but still more than with the other condos here. On the spur of the moment I called an ad, they rent it out ten minutes away from me. I went to look at it. I did not like the stairs at all - they were dirty and worn down. The door did not have a code on it. I made my mind to refuse it. On the floor, there are four doors, one is extremely dirty and torn to pieces, I made my mind to refuse again. Then they opened - inside is really clean. Not much different from mine, but cleaner, after a redecoration. They have a washing machine, a new fridge, a TV, cable. Here I do not have a TV or a washing machine. They ask a lot less, even with though I am to pay for water and electricity. On the spur of the moment I left a deposit. They were very eager to have me. Now, when I am back, I regret it and even cried. Mine is worse, but people who live around are more prosperous. The other thing I have here - the landlord allowed me to "register" myself (then your ID shows that you actually live here, and it's easy for paperwork). If you are not "registered", you are an invisible person - for jobs, hospitals, any paperwork you want to get. Landlords do not like to "register" tenants, because then they can sue for the property. But mine did. If you get ill or need a paper from a doctor, or from any office, you won't get it
    without that registration. I need you advice. 1. If you were I, would you move or not, and why? 2. Why am I so reluctant to move? I am not particularly emotional or what not. But I cried when I thought I would leave, why? Please, I am all alone and have no one else to ask.

    • ANSWER:
      You may want to move to another place, but I think the one you looked at is not good, and probably not the only apt/condo available to rent in your neighborhood. Your first impression said it all. You were uncomfortable with the lack of cleanliness and repair of the public area of the building. The mess tells quite a bit about owner and manager.

      The manager of an apt building is something important to consider.

      I do not know about the registering you had to do for your ID. I have lived in apartments for years and never came across this problem. Perhaps it has something to do with the renting of a condo.

      Also, I have had apartments where heat and water were paid, and others where the utilities were my responsibility. Adding these costs makes your monthly housing allowance much higher.

      I'd look for a place where heat and water were paid.

      Keep looking. Always sleep on the choice before committing to a decision.

      Whatever your age, being alone as you stated is difficult. You are not overly emotional, jobs and housing and landlords are big issues in our lives.

      If you don't pray, look into trusting God to watch over you as a loving father. He's said, "Cast all your cares on Me, because I care for you."

27. QUESTION:
    Is this de ja veau or something?
    I’m sitting on the “bed” in the doctor’s little tiny examination room. You know, the bed with the 14 inch sheet of toilet paper running down the center (not even trying to cover the whole bed) and coming off some toilet roll that’s hidden and you can’t see. You just know there’s a silver one-arm handle that you can pull like the hand towel thingys in the modern restrooms that makes you wipe your hands on a part of the towel that’s already gone around like 6 times and that goes “grrrrp… grrrrp…. Grrrrp.” You always have to pull the arm 3 times. It’s like a rule or something. They also got them for brown paper also.
    Anyway, the doctor is kneeling and finishing putting junk away in one of those white cabinets they don’t even bother to keep locked, and the nurse is busy cleaning her hands with baby wipes. You know, those 5” toilet tissues that used to come in a box so when you pulled one out to blow your nose another would pop up in case you had to blow you nose again, but now I guess they don’t come in a box because they’re wet and would leak through the box and they’re baby wipes now anyway.
    So I decided to break the ice because they weren’t saying anything, although they had been yapping like two lovers concocting a cover story for their spouses when they were administering the test and forgot I was there, I guess.
    So I say to the doctor, “I guess I’m not gonna die, hunh?” because it was the first thing to come to my mind while I was wondering if they validated parking. Not the parking parking, but the little ticket that comes out of the machine when you try and get in the parking garage and can’t because you got to take this ticket first that the doctor can stamp or write on to validate the ticket. That way you don’t have to pay to park at the office of the doctor you don’t want to see but will pay a lot of money to so you can come pay to park to see him.
    I think we're maybe binding or something when the doctor answers, “Naw, you’re not gonna die in my care.” Yeah baby, but then… I realize I don’t know this guys name, I’d never seen him before in my life, I was sent to him by the government and I will probably never see him again after I walk out of his office. I kind of wanted to stick around and apply for a job when I realized his care was about to end. I knew because it was already after 5:00 oclock according to one of those big wall clocks that looks like a Timex except it doesn’t have a wrist band and it’s really big.
    Anyway, we kind of came unbound and I left his office through a waiting room full of people who didn’t look sick to me and wondered if this doctor was the night shift before I realized I had been there like 4 hours so he couldn’t be the night shift. Maybe a split shift where like you work 8 hours and split it into different pieces. Maybe he only sees healthy people.
    Anyway. This wasn’t a dream or anything. It actually happened a couple of weeks ago and I’m wondering if this is some kind of omen or something. I haven’t heard about the test and I’m always positive about tests and pop quizzes and most everything, but maybe I got a low grade or something. I didn’t study or anything. I just kind of showed up and the only questions they asked were like my name and address and maybe my phone number. All the questions were easy except for a few about things that happened back when I was litteler and I had to guess at a few of those. But do you think this is like de ja veau?

    • ANSWER:
      Déjà vu is the illusion of having experienced something actually being encountered for the first time, and, no, it isn't an omen. The best thing to do is not to let it bother you.

28. QUESTION:
    Question about making a mold for patching rust?
    Ok, im restoring an 86 camaro. Tore out the carpet and there is a rediculous amount of rust on the passenger side of the car at the foot rest. Its kinda got some bumps and unevenness.

    This is a low budget restoration, no big machines or warehouses. Just metal, some hammers, a metal cutter, and a welder.

    Q: What is the easiest (and cheapest) way to make a mold of the floorpan, say abt 1' x 1' area, so i can then replicate it by bending a piece of metal.

    I remember in elementary school, we used to do this thing as an arts and craft activity. We'd make this gooey mixture, cut up strips of paper, dump them in, and then put them on something. It would harden in a short matter of time and create a nice mold. We used to make like masks with it.

    anyone know what that is called, how to do it, or what materials i need?

    Thanks a lot for taking the time to read + reply. Any help would be great!

    • ANSWER:
      I think this is what you are looking for,papermache.

      Scott

29. QUESTION:
    Is there a digital equivalent for the true Minox type document camera?
    I would like to know if there is a high quality small specialty digital camera available that effectively replaces the old Minox 110 cameras for use as a handheld document copying device. Most of what I know about or see recommended online, such as just using a point and shoot camera that is not specially designed for this, or one of those handheld scanners that you swipe across a piece of paper will all produce inferior results. Minox itself makes what it calls a "digital spy camera" but that is more of a toy from what I understand and cannot be used for critical copy work. Don't worrry, I am not a spy. I want to use it for genealogical purposes where easy access to a copy machine in not available.

    • ANSWER:
      My cell phone can capture documents and convert them to PDF on the fly, then send them to any person that has a cell phone or email address. Quality is not questioned document/handwriting analysis precise, but you can certainly read the page.

      Any decent point and shoot can do this. An SLR with macro lens, tripod, and oblique lighting can do it even better.

30. QUESTION:
    Boss blames employees for machine malfunctions?
    The vaccums don't pick everything up..........there are pieces of string on the carpet that they often miss.

    My boss has a tendency to blame me............
    like I didn't adjust the level properly.........
    or I I didn't clean it out enogh, or I didn't change the brush inside........
    but the truth is: the vaccums we are provided with are pieces of crap and simply won't pick the darn strings up! I often find myself picking up the strings by hand.

    and antoher thing: my co-workers often get the easy jobs;
    they get to mop the floor while I have to vaccum the carpet (they don't have to listen to loud irritating noise that the vaccum makes.) She rotates us around stations but never seems to put me on the floor station; always has to be a station that involves vaccuming. It's not a seniority thing; there are people there who are newer than me who get to do the floors.
    What up with that?

    Also - I walk around carrying both a vaccum and a broom/pan.........
    I'm theoretically supposed to do a combination of vaccuming and sweeping.............
    but she gets mad when I sweep.........in her mind, vaccuming is more useful.
    even when there's paper and crap on the floor that the vaccum can't get it's like I'm afraid I'm gonna get yelled at if I sweep it up. and like, God forbid I spend 2 minutes without having ot listen to the irritating vaccum noise.

    Your thoughts?

    • ANSWER:
      Keep picking up things by hand that the vacuum won't pick up and about once a week write a note to your boss about how the vaccuum is not picking up the strings and your productivity is decreased by the fact you have to pick up so much by hand. Do what you can in your work to gain favor with the boss and once you have that, then ask to be moved to a different job. She may reply explaining that she likes you on the vaccuum because you do a better job with the vaccuum than others who try to rush through it and miss a lot of spots. If so, then ask if you can be put in charge of training some of the other employees how to do the vaccuuming correctly and checking up on their work.

31. QUESTION:
    How did the Egyptians build the pyramids (Giza in particular)?
    Before you say anything dumb, I don't think extraterrestrials did it. But I was watching a segment on the History channel and it talked about how most of these blocks weighed around 2 tons, and there were 2.3 million stone blocks used. TODAY, architectural designers say a feat like this would nearly be impossible today, even with the MACHINES we had today. How did the Egyptians, not having any advanced tools (we suppose), build these mega-monuments. The architectural designs are nearly perfect so that you could barely slip a piece of paper inside one of the crevices of the Giza pyramids. I understand that the pyramids are "supposed" to be used as a burial site for the Pharaoh(s) and all his/her treasures. But wouldn't something that big be an easy target for grave robbers? What if the pyramids had another purpose; the Giza pyramids do line up with stars in orion's belt and they are geographically located at the centre of the planet (if flattened out). What if they had some advance tool given to them by advance beings from another planet. I GIVE the Egyptians credit for building these pyramids, but what was the all determining catalyst? As you look all over the world you see similar structures to the pyramids, such as in South America and Mexico, but the Egyptians and Inca/Aztec/Mayans/etc didn't mingle or share ideas, or did they? How can pyramidal structures be so common all over the world?
    EDIT: plus there are no written records of how they built them. SO we can only have theories of how they did.

    • ANSWER:
      block by block

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